Ganjen Swordsman

Requesting Gifts

The boy arrived at the duchy. At first the boy clingak clinguk full of wonder and admiration to see the beautiful buildings in the area of the duchy. Understandably, during life at the top of the mountain that only trees see. Iamemandangi the flagpole in the middle of the square while his heart is deep

“What's this tree called, huh? How come there are no leaves? If it bears fruit, what fruit is it?” the flagpole is not being used to fly the flag.

On the outskirts of the square are installed the pennants of the duchy around. Made of a long cloth hung on a bamboo pole. The boy nodded again

“This duchy is crazy, huh? Sun angkin alone to this much? Don't have clothesline behind their house?”

Finally Pandu Puber approached the gate of the duchy palace. He was silent for a moment to figure out how to get in there. What was the reason for having to answer the gatekeeper's question?

Pandu Puber undo the intention of approaching the gate of the duchy. He stayed under the tree for a while. Trying to think of finding a way to get into the castle fortress. At that moment from the gate of the fort appeared two old men coming out from inside the fort. Two men about fifty years old were walking towards the south, passing through the front street of Pandu Puber. The eight-year-old noticed the person without understanding why he was paying attention to the person.

The interest in paying attention might be due to the two people being dressed luxuriously and beautifully. Gold thread decoration and flickering in the clothes that invited the interest of Pandu to admire it. Accidentally Pandu apparently heard their conversation.

“Lha yes, kayak pain is so taken lightly! The Duke was wrong too. If you know the empress has often been sweating cold and vomiting, she should immediately respond dong. That's a sign the empress is pregnant.”

“Lho, initially it is considered to be common cold?”

“But the wind keeps on going? Is the wind stubbornly not going out? If you have fainted like this, it's just a crime. No matter who bothered us too, told to find a healer within a day!”

“But I don't think the empress is necessarily pregnant young. Maybe he really is suffering from pain. Only pain is it not clear?”

“That's it, no need to argue. It is our job to find a doctor. What do we think of the healer that works? Because if the healer we bring is not efficacious, Kanjeng Adipati can be angry with us - we people!”

The conversation drifted away as the two men immediately veered around the corner. The boy thought for a moment.

“Tabib….? Empress sick? Hmm.. I'm glad I pretended to be a healer. Ah, but I'm still a kid. I am not trusted to be a healer. Hmm.... o, yes! I have sense.” Pandu Puber went away for a while. He's looking for some leaves. Coincidentally obtained bitter melon leaves that grow next to the houses of the residents. Eight leaves of bitter melon were carried. It was really the boy. He approached the gatekeeper and said with a plain face.

“Kang, I want to face Kenjeng Adipati.”

“Husy! Just indiscriminate. Little boys like you are not allowed to face Kanjeng Adipati!” the guard on the left. The guard on the right immediately said.

“Cumal and dirty bodies are so willing to face Kanjeng Adipati? Can be whipped twelve times you, Jang!”

“My name is not Ujang, my name is Pandu Puber, Kang!” protest the boy.

“Mau Pandu Puber what Pandu Puser, whatever! The important thing is that you don't let us enter!”

“I was sent, Kang.”

“Delivered by whom?”

“By a great healer named.... named....” Pandu Puber made up the name.

“O, yes...the name is Tea Physician Kolak.”

“Who....?” The guard on the right laughed. “Teh Kolak? How strange is his name?”

“I don't know, Kang. Anyway he named Tabib Teh Kolak, originally from the Red Sea.”

“Red Sea in China?”

“Iya, times! I myself do not know where the Red Sea is,” said Pandu origin call the name of the sea and it turns out to be interpreted the name of the sea in China. In China, there is no sea called the Red Sea.

“The physician met me when I was herding goats, Kang. He asked me for help. He said he felt pain all over his body. After he ascended, it turned out that the pain came from the Empress in this duchy. Then because he had a need elsewhere, he asked me to hand over the medicine to Kanjeng Adipati. This drug should be taken by Gusti Permaisuri.”

“Where is the cure?”

“Lha this.... I hold this!”

“Just leaves?”

“Iya. Anyway he just gave me this leaf and was told to hand over the Duke Kanjeng!”

The right guard said to the left guard

“Means the physician is quite powerful, he can tell that our Empress Gusti is sick. Great also the science of the physician, yes?”

“Iya! But what about this kid? What is allowed in?”

The other guard said to Pandu,

“Then just like this, Dik….. Give the leaf to me later I will tell Kanjeng Adipati. It will definitely be immediately drilled into the body of Gusti Empress Kadarwati!”

“Wah, can't do that, Kang. Message Eyang Tabib, this leaf should I hand myself to Kanjeng Adipati, then I should tell how to treat Gusti Empress using this leaf.”

“What the hell is that?” ask the other guard.

“Kata Eyang Tabib.. This leaf is called Tapak Peri leaf.”.

“Ah, like bitter gourd?”

“Indeed the leaves of Tapak Peri are very similar to the leaves of bitter melon,” said the boy was smart to avoid suspicion.

“You don't lie! If you lie you can be handed over to Dokoh Blood!”

“Whose Blood is Sturdy?”

“Algojo in charge of beating every criminal who entered the duchy!”

“Yeah…. If you don't believe, you already do. I'll just go home!” The palanquin pretended to leave, the guard exclaimed,

“Wait, wait...!”

Pandu Puber's step was deliberately stopped but acted indifferently, just looking and saying,

“I have to take care of my goats, Kang! I don't have time to talk to you. If you do not believe me, I just throw away this leaf, although it is said to be the way to the top of Mount Krakatau!”

“Eeeh, uh...wait a minute! Hmm. Yeah, you can come in. Let me deliver, Dik!” the guard on the left. Then, Pandu Puber was escorted to Duke Sihombreng. The Duke was young. He was about thirty-five years old. If only passing by a little. Maybe because the food is guaranteed and the life is prosperous, supported by all-luxury clothes, so his face looks young, thin mustache. The look in his eyes indicates that he is selfish, but not intelligent enough. He was a bit arrogant, visible from the way he looked at him who always raised his chin a little.

Actually facing the Duke is not arbitrary people can. And not every guest would be found by the Duke. Moreover, only a boy sekumal Pandu Puber, but because the news received by the Duke is about the boy who was sent a powerful healer to bring medicine to the Empress, he said, then inevitably the Duke received Pandu in the portico of Paseban.

“Eyang Tabib wanti-wanti so that I am required to talk alone with Kanjeng Adipati,” Pandu Puber said.

After a moment's consideration, the Duke told his men to leave the place. But the guards kept guarding from a distance.

“Explain what you mean!” said the Duke.

“The Tea Physician Kolak cried when he met me, Kanjeng.”

“Why?”

“Tabib Teh Kolak say so?!”

“True, Kanjeng. That's why he sent me to deliver this medicine made from the leaves of the Fairy Tread. If I am late in giving the leaf, he said Gusti the Empress will meet her death. So I was wanted to get here fast!”

Secretly the Duke still had suspicions that doubted his opinion. Then he said

“Are you sure that person is a healer?”

“Entah healer is either a powerful person, anyway he claimed to be named Tabib Teh Kolak, Kanjeng. Instead he asked me, is the King's wife here named Kadarwati? I said that I do not know, because I have never known Gusti Empress.”

“Ya, yes…. It's true!” the Duke replied beginning to be astonished and affected. Though Pandu knew the name of the Duke's wife from his conversation with the gatekeeper earlier. He recorded in his brain the name Kadarwati mentioned the guard earlier.

“Keep, what else did he say?”

“Hmm..anu...Eyang Tabib said also, this leaf should not be touched by the hand of someone named Dokoh Blood, the efficacy of the leaf can be lost because people with Dokoh Blood are dishonest people. I said, in the duchy there is no one named Dokoh Darah. Duchy people, especially the palace officers, must be a good name. But Eyang Tabib remained insistent, he said in the palace there was a named Dokoh Blood.”

“Iya. True that! There is! He's a prison guard!”

“Oooo...” Pandu Puber mangosteen with her plain face. In his heart he wanted to laugh to see the Duke believe in his words. Though the name Dokoh Blood was also known as Pandu from the mouth of the gatekeeper earlier.

“I did not know that there is a person here named Dokoh Darah. I'm sorry, Kanjeng.”

“Yes, yes.nothing. I understand because you never got in here. But I was amazed by that person.obviously he was not just a healer, he must be a magic ascetic as well. If not a great man, there is no way he can mention my wife's name and the name of the jailer here.”

“He never died at the top of Mount Krakatau, Kanjeng.”

“Ooo...fast!” the Duke of mangosteen.

“Keep how else?”

“This account must be drunk immediately Gusti Empress. The way by boiling, the water is not much, so boiling is directly poured into the bowl. After cold is minimized.” Pandu Puber handed the leaf over. The Duke looked happy, sure that the leaves were highly nutritious for healing.

“Get eight sheets, yes?”

“Betul, Kanjeng. He said the eight leaves represented the eight winds. Ah, I don't know what that means. Anyway, that's all I got from The Kolak Physician. O, yes. in boiling these leaves, he said it should be spiked with soft pepper two timps, and salt three jimpits. Two bowls of water. How to boil it should not be done by others, must be self-sufficient. Because said Tabib Teh Kolak, the herbal medicine will be efficacious if boiled by the husband of a sick person.”

“Yes, yes, yes...I'll do it myself to make it more beautiful!” said.

“Then what's the pesen?”

“O, yes…. Tabib Teh Kolak advised, if there is a person here whose name uses Thorn, should be immediately expelled. Either the servant, either a soldier, or a high-ranking official of the palace, if his name was used as Duri, must be expelled and must not stay in the duchy. Because he said that people who use the name of Thorn are the cause of the disease. It will spread into a plague. If the person is killed, it can spread the disease even more violently. So, Eyang Tabib only advised people whose names use Duri should be expelled from the duchy and should not stay in the duchy again, that is if Kanjeng wants its citizens to survive dangerous diseases.”

The advantages of Pandu Puber speech in such a small age limit make the Duke more confident. Even the Duke thinks

“This child does not seem to speak in his consciousness. There must be a supernatural spirit that uses its body to speak for itself. Perhaps the great spirit of the physician himself.”

Pandu immediately said,

“I think I have enough of my needs, Kanjeng. All the messages of Eyang Tabib Teh Kolak I have conveyed. I beg you pamit.”

“Wait, wait..!” the Duke held off Pandu's steps.

“If the one who uses the name Duri must be expelled, yes?”

“Betul, Kanjeng. No matter that palace official or ordinary soldier, must be quickly expelled as far as possible.”

“Here who uses the name Duri there are two, Dewi Widuri my own nephew. Then….. Wirya Kenduri, my gardener.”

“Lho...said Eyang Tabib there are three? How about two?”

“O, yes.the other one is my prisoner, his name is Mirah Duri. But..” The Duke was worried for a while. Pandu Puber palpitated, then said.

“Just if Kanjeng wants to survive all his people yes have to expel those names!”

“Yes! Rather than my people being attacked by a plague that started from my wife, I better do the message Eyang Tabib Teh Kolak!”

“Then, excuse me, Kanjeng!”

“Wait a minute!” The Duke took the money in a small cloth bag.

“This I give money for snacks on the road.”

“Wah, thank you, Kanjeng. The physician forbade me to receive a wage in this duty. If I receive wages, I myself could be sick like Gusti Empress.”

“Ooo...so, yes already if that's the message Eyang Tabib!” the Duke was more convinced.

So the three names that used the Thorn were expelled from the palace. Even paraded some soldiers to get out of the boundaries of the duchy. Of course it had gotten a lawsuit from two innocent names, Wirya Kenduri and Dewi Widuri. They protested against the Duke's decision. But for Mirah Duri it was very

profitable. Mirah Duri himself was astonished, who was the little boy who brought such news. He only heard a cursory story about the boy who came carrying the message of a healer. But when he rushed to escape from the boundaries of the duchy, suddenly his steps stopped due to the appearance of Pandu Puber from behind a tree. The boy nodded and said.

“Naah... is done right?”

“Hey, you..you're that boy with my teacher, right?”

“Betul. I'm Pandu Puber, Yu! I heard you were taken prisoner in the duchy from my grandfather. Now your teacher is at my grandfather's house. Then I tried to free you so as not to exchange for the life of Ki Parut Blister!”

“Ja..so you who came to the duchy and delivered the news of a great physician?”

“Betul. I have no other way to get rid of you, Yu! If against the duchy yes not necessarily win.”

“Yes obviously, will not win!”

“Means I used it that way. But.pity also yes, two people who use the name of the Thorn so follow expelled. I thought you were the only one named Duri. There aren't two more.”

Mirah Duri bobbing head.

"Well, wow, wow.. You have some reason to be, Pandu!”

“That's important can set you free, Yu! I don't like it when you're taken hostage and exchanged for your teacher's life. You are not wrong.”

“Indeed. And..I should thank you, Pandu.”

“Content dong gift!”

“Good. I'll give you a present. What gift are you asking for?”

“Sun..!” while putting his cheek.

“Hahh...?!” Mirah Duri was shocked and stunned dumbstruck.